The Definitive Guide to Magento

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This book takes a comprehensive look at Magento, a robust and flexible e-commerce platform built on the Zend framework. With over 750,000 downloads, Magento is the fastest growing open source e-commerce solution. This book walks you through all of the steps necessary to build a fully functional Magento-based web site. It also includes information on managing products, customers, and orders. This book is directed at web site designers and developers, but will also be extremely useful for business owners who have web sites built on the Magento platform.

Introduces you to Magento, the fastest-growing open source e-commerce platform
Demonstrates how to configure and use Magento
Covers how to customize Magento and develop extensions for the Magento platform

What you’ll learn

How to install and set up a Magento based e-commerce web site
How to effectively manage products, customers, and orders
How to sell products through Magento
How to design a custom Magento web site
How to add content to your Magento web site
How to create your own Magento extensions

Who is this book for?

Current and prospective web site designers and web developers; small business owners who want an online presence

Product Details

ISBN13: 9781430272298
Condition: New
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Excellent Guide to Magento

Review Date: January 1, 2010

Reviewer: Jason Brigs,

Being new to Magento I found that this book extremely helpful. Several of the beginning chapters are devoted to exploring both the public and administrative sides of Magento. There are also several advanced chapters devoted to extensions, API references and advance programming. Of the other two Magento books I've purchased and read (including Magento's guide), I found this book to be the most thorough.

I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn more about Magento and I look forward to a more advanced Magento book by the same Authors.

This should be called the "Missing Manual"

Review Date: January 19, 2010

Reviewer: D. Myers,

Anyone who has attempted to use Magento knows that there's a complete lack of documentation. The Definitive Guide to Magento does an excellent job filling that void by describing each of Magento's functions, on the front end and back end. There's a walk through on creating themes, creating modules and making minor modifications to your Magento installation. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is interested in installing and using Magento in any capacity.

Not "Definitive" really!

Review Date: February 2, 2010

Reviewer: Salman Hajipour, Tehran, Iran

Cut to the short, this book is like a manual to the interface you see, the Magento's front-end and back-end.

The writing in some parts of the book, is vague and not clear enough to understand. It's possible to find lots of key-points in one small paragraph.

The Magento's installation progress is simply described in few steps, which in reality is a headache!

Last chapters are much more better written and are much more similar to the taste of a professional developer.

Maybe I Should Start Writing Books

Review Date: February 6, 2010

Reviewer: Jonathan Steinmann, TAMPA, FL USA

The Definitive Guide To Magento... really? Unless you're the kind of person that in general has a hard time using computers, about 60% of this book is a complete waste of time in my opinion. Even if you only have maybe a year of web design/development experience, just follow the download instructions online (which is basically download and run and localhost... not hard), and poke around the magento admin area yourself.

The book has an obsession with providing examples to connect to magento via xml and soap toward the end (which most people wont need to do with magento at all but at least it's more definitive like of a topic), but that's about the only thing worth mentioning that a developer would be interested in. Designing custom themes, apps, extensions, ecommerce modules, shipping modules, etc.etc... MIA or skimmed in a few pages. If the book was titled Getting Started with Using Magento Admin... i'd say the book did a good job... but I also wouldn't have bought it.

summary: if you're an absolute beginner with magento, have a hard time using computers in general, and really just want to know how to use magento once everything has been setup for you... this is a good book. If you're a web developer deploying your first magento ecommerce store... there's no depth or information in this book worthy of the price tag so I wouldn't recommend it. If you're a veteran and have created a magento ecommerce store in the past... don't even think about this book.

Not exactly "Definitive"

Review Date: December 23, 2009

Reviewer: K. Thompson, New Hampshire

The "Definitive" in the title set my expectations higher than they should have been. The first half is pretty much a walk through of installing and setting up a Magento store without much value added. Then the book plunges into advanced topics with several chapters on how to customize code. The book is uneven at best.

Tags: definitive, guide, magento

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